Resourcefulness, resilience, and collaboration are critical mindsets, and skill sets, for students to develop. For schools to support those outcomes, educators must have the opportunity to develop the same. Mitch Weisburgh, the author of, “Mindshifting: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success,” explores the importance and possibilities. What’s the role of wellbeing and […]

While reading an interview in Kappan where Angela Maiers described schools having a “mattering” problem, (“Kids think they don’t matter”) I found myself thinking about educators thinking they (teachers or school leaders) don’t matter.  Maiers posits that when students understand that they matter to their educators and peers, it fosters a sense of belonging and […]